Larisa Bedgood — February 25, 2020 Where are Enterprise Marketers Allocating Their Budgets? Not a surprise, spend on digital channels is continuing to increase while spend on more traditional channels such as newspapers and magazines is on the decline. In a recent study by Gartner, digital and social channels garnered a healthy portion of marketing … Continue reading Where are Enterprise Marketers Allocating Their Budgets?
Reports show companies are investing in personalization, but marketers are struggling to implement and execute full-scale personalization initiatives. Amy Gesenhues on January 21, 2020 In a recent survey of 200 marketers, 86% told Merkle they have budgets defined for personalized messaging initiatives and 82% had martech solutions in place to implement personalization. Further, 89% claimed … Continue reading Is personalization working? Budgets are increasing, but martech challenges threaten future investments
Sixty-four percent plan to increase ABM staff next year, study finds. Amy Gesenhues on December 11, 2019 Account-based marketing tactics are set to account for a growing share of marketing budgets in 2020. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of marketers who are using account-based marketing (ABM) tactics plan to increase their ABM budgets in the coming year, … Continue reading 73% of marketers plan to increase ABM budgets in 2020
Vince Chiofolo — November 6, 2019 If you’re reading this post, it’s likely you’re running incentives to partners and using some sort of system to manage it all. If that’s the case, managing budgets and workflows are likely a big part of your world. Partner incentives, like any system, involves a set of structured rules, … Continue reading Structuring Budgets and Rules in Your Channel Incentive Program
Where Marketers Allocate Media Budgets And How Much They Plan To Spend by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 17, 2019 Marketers feel most unprepared to use a variety of emerging technologies. Some 25% of marketers participating in a study released Tuesday said they are not prepared to use chatbots. About 23% cited voice search, … Continue reading Where Marketers Allocate Media Budgets And How Much They Plan To Spend
You’ll build more complementary and incremental reach by adding Facebook Video and YouTube to TV, while also creating more efficient campaigns. Grace Kaye on July 17, 2019 This may not be groundbreaking news, but it bears repeating: the media landscape isn’t the same as it used to be. And it’s nowhere near ready to stop … Continue reading TV-focused brand budgets are more efficient when combined with YouTube and Facebook
Zenith Media Report Shows Small Businesses Spend All Their Ad Budgets Online by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, Yesterday Google and Microsoft have spent decades building search platforms and helping small to medium-sized businesses use online technology to advertise and market their goods and services. Now a report, released Monday, suggests much of the growth … Continue reading Zenith Media Report Shows Small Businesses Spend All Their Ad Budgets Online
Robert Gloer — May 28, 2019 Follow @IOUFinancial — May 28, 2019 Budgeting is to business as oxygen is to life: Without it, you die. The reason budgeting is vital to the health of a small business is that it is your GPS device for telling you where you are supposed to go and where … Continue reading 4 Things Small Businesses Must Include in Their Budgets
Amazon Takes Search Budgets From Google, Bing, Yahoo, Data Suggests by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 24, 2019 Marketers spent a whopping 77% more during the first quarter of 2019 on Amazon Sponsored Brands ads, formerly known as Headline Search Ads, while Amazon Sponsored Products grew 19% year-on-year in the quarter, according to recent … Continue reading Amazon Takes Search Budgets From Google, Bing, Yahoo, Data Suggests
Manish Dudharejia — April 16, 2019 Follow @Manish_Analyst — April 16, 2019 The growth of the e-commerce industry has made it possible for just about anyone with a good business idea to start their own online company. However, launching a new business is always a financial risk. Although the upfront costs of an online business … Continue reading How Thrifty Entrepreneurs Can Stretch Their Budgets While Launching an Online Store
